It's 2025, and the era of desktop anime girls is well and truly upon us. Thanks to the latest entry in this unlikely trend, you can even hire Hatsune Miku herself to hang out on your taskbar while you go about your daily desktop work.
Desktop Mate hit Steam on January 7, with developer infiniteloop billing it as a "next-generation desktop mascot platform that brings cute characters to your computer." The basic app is free, and adds an original anime girl, animated in 3D, to your desktop. You can have her sit on your taskbar, or on top of a window. You can rub your mouse cursor to give her headpats. You can… move her around. And I'm really starting to run out of features to describe here.
